Washing-machine



rural) STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT A. NEFF, OF HILL GROVE, OHIO.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,679, dated December 17, 1889. Application filed August 21, 1889. Serial No. 321,504. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT A. NEFF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hill Grove, in the county of Darke and State of Ohio, have in ented a new and useful Improvement in lVashing-ltlachines, of which the following s a specification.

My invention is a washing-machine comprising a suds-box and a rocking rubber sus pended within the suds-box; and my said invention consists of certain details of construction and arrangement of the parts, as and for the purposes as will be hereinafter more fully described, and form the subjectmatter of the annexed claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of a washing-machine constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a central transverse sectional elevation on the line 00 a: of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal sectional'elevation on the line y 1 of Fig. 1.

The letters A A indicate the sides of the suds-box, which are curved at their lower edge, and are formed with a groove, as at a, in which the metallic bottom B fits.

- O are binding-wires by which the two sides of the suds-box are heldtogether.

D is the slatted bottom, which is made removable and is composed of two spring-rods d and transverse slats d. This slatted removable bottom abuts at each end against shoulders a at each extremity of the sudsbox.

E is the rubber, having a curved slatted rubbing-surface, as at f, which rubber isheld upon trunnions f, that enter a sliding support G, which support has a vertical adjust ment in an extension A of the side pieces A of the suds box. These trunnions f are movable and they pass through the sides E of. the rubber, and through the inner end of each projects a rod H, that is held in a vertical position by a bracket h, and the upper part of each of said rods is engaged by a spring I, that is attached to the vertical standards E 'of the rubber and tends to press the upper part of said rod H outward, whereby the accidental inward movement of the withdrawal of the trunnions f from their supports G is prevented. The supports G for the trunnions f have a series of holes g therein to receive the said trunnions, and said supports slide in a groove J, formed in the extension A of the side pieces A of the suds-box. Behind these sliding supports G and arranged to exert a downward pressure upon the same is a spring K.

The object and function of these parts just described are to exert a yielding pressure upon the rubber. By pressing toward the arms E upon the upper part of the vertical rods H the trunnions f are withdrawn from their sockets in the sides of the suds-box, and the rubber may be removed or raised to permit the introduction of the clothes to be washed beneath the same, after which the trunnions are again returned to their proper position. As the rocker is moved back and forth over the clothes, a steady pressure is exerted upon said rocker by the springs K, acting upon the sliding supports G, and the trunnions f, attached to said rubber and held in said supports. The desired pressure upon the clothes is therefore the result of this construction, so that the labor of pressing upon the rubber by hand is avoided.

I claim 1. In a washing-machine, in combination with the suds-box A B, slatted bottom D, and rubber E, having standards E, the removable trunnions f f passing through the sides of the rubber, rods H, brackets h, and spring I, all constructed and arranged to operate substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. In a washing-machine, in combination with the suds-box A B, slatted bottom D, rubber E, having standards E, removable trunnions f f, passing through the sides of the rubber, rods H, bracket-s h, spring I, the supports G for said trunnions, having a vertical movement and provided with holes g therein, and spring K, for holding said supports, all constructed and arranged to operate substantially as and for the purposes described and shown. I

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aifixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT A. NEFF. Witnesses;

WM. ScHNAUs, L. C. GARVER. 

